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Ocean transportation pricing will be more flexible under the landmark shipping deregulation law sign

Rebuffed in his attempts to buy more shares of Atlantic Container Line, Philadelphia shipping execut

Libra Navegacao SA, formerly Grupo Libra, will join an alliance comprising Crowley American Transpor

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845 (October 29, 1998) Previous day - 854The Baltic Exchange in London on Tuesdays and Thurs

Three major North American railroads panned the proposed merger of Canadian National Railway Co. and

Ford Motor Co., having battled for one set of special concessions in return for locating a plant in

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. will begin actively marketing in Connecticut in the first

After decades of not being able to mention the competition or compare prices in their ads, some Germ

Maximo Aguilera, director of Chile's National Statistics Institute, said that 81 goods will be added

Turkey has been threatening, wheedling, cajoling and negotiating this week, trying to influence a de

Qualcomm Inc., a San Diego-based telecommunications firm, is lobbying Beijing to adopt a U.S. cellul

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Dec. 19, 1997 - Oct. 29, 1998 (a graph)*

The Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 grew out of agreement between big shippers and carriers, but t

Key movements in 20-foot ocean container unitsJul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. A

Less than a week after announcing that Canadian National Railway Co. would reduce its work force by

Norfolk Southern Corp. reported third-quarter earnings of $158 million, or 42 cents a share, 12 perc

Wednesday Oct. 28, 1998Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, represent

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius, an avowed champion of consumers, is defending her r

Moody's Investors Service has placed eight Japanese life insurance companies under review for possib

Oct. 28, 1998Baltic international Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

The United States wants to restrict imports of two more categories of Cambodian apparel - cotton swe

Customs keeps churning out the names of Hong Kong apparel makers suspected of shady dealings as it a

The New York foreign exchange rates below are selling rates among trading banks of $1 million and mo

Readers may be forgiven for not knowing too much about the Irish town of Cork. It is not one of the

With the eyes of global investors and battered emerging markets on it, Brazil announced Wednesday a

Israel has served notice on Canada that it intends to terminate their bilateral air treaty a year fr

The following tradeleads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The leads are curre

U.S. crude oil inventories rose nearly 8 million barrels in the week ended Oct. 23, as compared with

FUTURES - October 27, 1998 OPEN INTEREST AND SALES - October 26, 1998All life-of-

Starting the first of the new year, the Lloyd's of London trade credit insurance market will have a

Equitable InsuranceJohn A. Caroselli has been promoted to executive vice president, corporat

Liberty Mutual Group said its subsidiary Liberty International has acquired a controlling interest i

French construction and communications group Bouygues said it will help build two rail tunnels in Ho

President Andres Pastrana snuffed out Colombia's bitter 21-day-old public sector strike Tuesday amid

'You want to blend in with all the other trees in the forest. If you put a bull's-eye on your back,

Emerging Asian economies that are implementing reforms could retreat to trade protectionism unless f

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Dec. 19, 1997 - Oct. 28, 1998 (a graph)*

Japan's exports of goods and services are forecast to fall by the end of this year by 1.8 percent, b

Importers are better prepared for deregulation than ocean carriers, so they should enter contract ne